Comments on: Open thread 9/23/23 https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/open-thread-9-23-23/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 25 Sep 2023 14:46:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: gallchobhair https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/open-thread-9-23-23/#comment-2699983 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 14:46:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128891#comment-2699983 Abraxas:

I imagine the original Mondegreen came from the ballad “The Bonny Earl of Murray.”

“Ye highlands, and ye lawlands,
Oh! whair hae ye been?
They hae slaine the earl of Murray,
And layd him on the green.”

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/open-thread-9-23-23/#comment-2699959 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 03:35:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128891#comment-2699959 Re: Michelle Obama

John Guilfoyle, Kate:

We can all agree that Michelle Obama doesn’t want to be President.

However, Michelle O. is an adult and sometimes, in fact much of the time, adults do things they would rather not do in exchange for a larger good. The question is whether there are circumstances which would change her mind.

According to a recent poll Trump is now leading Biden by 10 points. Could a certain Trump defeat of Biden in 2024 and the undoing Obama’s legacy be sufficient motivation for Michelle Obama? As Ted Cruz outlines the scenario:
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So, when I see the media turning on Joe Biden right now, I think the odds of Michelle Obama parachuting in in August of 2024 have risen dramatically, and that ought to scare the hell out of anyone who is unhappy in the direction this country is going and doesn’t want us to go even crazier in an even worse direction.

–Ted Cruz
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Furthermore, what’s to stop her from resigning “for health reasons” three months after the inauguration and letting a VP like Newsom take over. This would solve the Biden and Harris problems.

These are power-mad Democrats. As long as they have any quasi-legal option to keep or gain power, that option is on the table.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/open-thread-9-23-23/#comment-2699944 Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:54:57 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128891#comment-2699944 “Last night I dreamt of lumbago.”

]]> By: cb https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/open-thread-9-23-23/#comment-2699932 Sun, 24 Sep 2023 23:53:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128891#comment-2699932 Jerry Adams, re CCR: Another ex gf “There’s a bathroom on the right”

]]> By: Jerry Adams https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/open-thread-9-23-23/#comment-2699927 Sun, 24 Sep 2023 23:10:15 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128891#comment-2699927 CCR: There’s a baboon on the right.
Hat tip to former girlfriend.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/open-thread-9-23-23/#comment-2699910 Sun, 24 Sep 2023 20:53:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128891#comment-2699910 And of course what it the solution to the problem of the deadly black ball and the Great Urn? Just stop people from thinking Mr Weinstein?

The concept of “great minds” is vastly over rated.

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/open-thread-9-23-23/#comment-2699906 Sun, 24 Sep 2023 20:29:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128891#comment-2699906 OBloodyHell–What I took from what Weinstein said about population was not a comment on the controversy about over population but was, instead, him saying that there being so many people greatly increased the likelihood, the chances of someone among that vast number of humans pulling a deadly black ball from the Urn, and killing us all.

]]> By: Abraxas https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/open-thread-9-23-23/#comment-2699894 Sun, 24 Sep 2023 19:02:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128891#comment-2699894 Very funny. Misheard lyrics are called “mondegreens.” In the 18th century a line in a song that went “and laid him on the green” was understood by someone as “and Lady Mondegreen.”

I was surprised to learn that Neil Diamond’s catchy tune about “Reverend Bluejeans” was actually “Forever in Blue Jeans,” a rather duller concept to me. I wanted to know more about the Rev, not about Neil’s sartorial preferences.

I also wonder if Orff and the medieval poets he set to music really associated their work with the terrible emergence of something demonic as Hollywood always does.

]]> By: cb https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/open-thread-9-23-23/#comment-2699885 Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:32:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128891#comment-2699885 Kate, re ‘use of drones’. Exactly correct. As discussed at ‘Big Country Expat’ blog, drones have made conventional Infantry practically obsolete.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2023/09/23/open-thread-9-23-23/#comment-2699883 Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:10:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=128891#comment-2699883 om, I’m not going to watch the YouTube, but I do think that the use of drones in the Russia-Ukraine war is a fascinating development. We’ll see more of this.

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